Here's an iPhone 5 first Apple would be happier without

Prior to the door opening at the Cube at 8 a.m. ET in NYC, the line wound all the way down 58th Street. What you're seeing here is the line extending around the block up Madison Avenue around 8:45 a.m. ET.
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Some people in Japan found a way around the endless lines for the iPhone 5. They just broke in and took them early.

Thieves took about 200 devices from three phone retailer stores in Osaka in the early hours before the launch, according to the Wall Street Journal. Seventy-five iPhone 5s were taken from a couple of KDDI "au" brand shops, while 116 were stolen from a Softbank store.

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What's pretty impressive is how quickly the thieves were in and out. The WSJ is reporting all devices in the Softbank location were nabbed from a locked back room within a four minute span starting at 4:24 a.m.

Apple's new product launches are often met with long lines and a mild amount of pandemonium. The latest iPhone is expected to set new sales records, with Apple and AT&T already noting presales were at an all-time high. Ship dates have already been delayed by weeks, and some stores are running out of inventory.